Diesel, about to go ride his motorcycle through a coral reef or some shit. Photo: Paramount Pictures

Lovable lunkhead Vin Diesel has seized the means of action-movie production, announcing in a press release yesterday evening that he and his One Race Films have partnered with American-Chinese film company H Collective to buy the rights to his xXx franchise, where he is the biggest, baddest, and baldest dude on set and no one calls him a candy ass.

This announcement came bundled with the announcement of a fourth xXx film—titled, for now, simply xXx 4—directed by DJ Caruso, who also helmed last year’s absolutely ridiculous xXx: Return Of Xander Cage. In the release, H Collective CEO Nic Crawley says, “During my time at Paramount I was lucky to be involved in the development and distribution of xXx: Return Of Xander Cage. The response from the Chinese box office was unprecedented,” so expect another Chinese actor (or actress) to co-star a là Donnie Yen’s appearance as the villainous Xiang in the last xXx movie.

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Now all that’s left to figure out is how Diesel will top snow skiing through the jungle (see below) and riding his motorcycle across large bodies of water like a goddamn action-movie Jesus. Time to crush a couple of Monster energy drinks and get to work, screenwriters.